When the original capitalism and free markets were thought out, the known monopolies were so small as to be laughable, cost of entry was relatively fixed for all players and there were usually multiples, and there were significant hurdles to the international behemoths commonplace today. Today, cost of entry is high for anyone attempting to enter an existing market, the number of players is so small as to be laughable to be considered a choice, a key to free markets
If you go back in history, just about all wars were won when then victors pretty much stomped out the losers, across the board, to such an extent that they capitulated or were dead.
Every 3-5 years, you need to upgrade, releases are done such that the window for upgrading is actually smaller, for at least part of the stack you use. So the costs are not only sunk costs, but a continual drain. You also have a continuing and increasing cost for maintaining your systems, especially given the new Win10 push cycles. Lastly, I'm assuming those existing custom applications are going to require significant updates when migrating to the latest windows versions, which will be required across the board in the next 3-4 years. So you can either sink a bunch of money into upgrading those apps, or migrate to something from at least this decade and more friendly to all.
Pluggable read only chips are fine. No issue with those, other than car manufacturers would have to replace those chips if there was a problem. Pluggable chips have another benefit - they can be validated.
Separate busses at least restrict attack vectors, and remove an entire suite of potential vectors. That's not security theater, that's common sense. Security theater would be putting a cap on the plug, and calling it secure because it has a federal "Do not open unless authorized" sticker on it.
I don't buy DRM'd software unless it's for work. I also don't run DRM'd software. I don't need to, there's a large enough catalog of non DRM software out there to keep you busy for longer than you probably have. The AAA titles keep being released in a deeper and deeper pool, as older games are staying more than playable for far longer than in the past. That's probably the largest hit to their revenue, not piracy.
I have managed to rip most CDs after a thorough dawn / towel polishing (data side only) followed by a rinse. There was one case where I needed an optically identical agent to fill a couple of deeper scratches on a used CD I bought, but that was a long time ago and I don't recall the brand I used. Using cdparanoia, it is relatively painless as long as you took even moderate care of your CDs.
Did I? If I own both, I've not done anything untoward, I might even have "installed" windows on a VM with a direct access file system and merely linked appropriately. Done properly, windows will never even need be run on the current system in question.
Seems like you have a bigger problem - SQL Server. I understand why you have to update iOS each release, but why would you need to update the back end with every release of SQL Server? I know systems that are still running on 2005, and they run fine. Your boss/PM/stakeholder needs a stake put through their heads. Skipping the next DB release might buy you enough time to put your house in order. Skipping the following release might buy you enough time to review your architecture and implement something to get off the upgrade cycle mill you're being deathmarched to currently. Your DB should not need to be upgraded often, if at all, once you're in production.
To put "the republicans" more in line with what every other country in the world calls that party: they are conservative. Conservatives, free from corruption, are for small government. They prioritize tradition over progressive ideas, saving over spending, and the free market over social bureaucracy.
Well, then these are not conservatives. They're not even quite social conservatives. They're more like the US christian (im)moral conservatives, if you really want to pin them down.
The world needs more fiscal conservatism.... A good start would be to remove corporate contributions to political campaigns.
Actually, start by removing party affiliation from the ballot. Do that first. That will mean people will actually have to know who they're voting for instead of pulling the red or blue handle blindly. How that was ever considered constitutional (government support of parties) amazes me even today.
The first thing any self-respecting car thief does is remove/replace the plates. So this pretty much is all about gathering data, and nothing to do with reducing crime.
The biggest issue with aging is the stem cells in your body slowly dying out. Telomeres are the main suspect here, along with mutations in DNA during division.
Top 10 is 71+K. Get rid of them, all of a sudden there's a whole lot fewer H1Bs in country. I'm sure if you go down the list, you'll find more in "consulting" roles. MS is #11, how many of their consultants are H1Bs vs the rest of the employees? By the time you get to companies with less than 50 H1Bs, I'm pretty sure you'll have wiped out the large majority of H1Bs. Having done consulting, no one does consulting for an average 70K a year in the manner these do. It's not worth it. I doubt most will have more than 2 years tenure if they were paid 100K.
Now to part 2 - H1Bs should be paid 20% above the going rate for the average US worker, plus a 10% tax straight to the gov (might as well fix our deficit with these highly skilled but not US workers while making US workers more attractive) or maybe have the entire 30% go straight to the debt or some other combination.
I want small, lightweight, and most importantly: no wasted time dealing with non-essential pieces. Great battery life is a big plus too. Yes, using discrete graphics eats into battery life, although I actually haven't done a test with the newest one, it does last 8 hours doing builds and tests including running browsers, DBs, appservers and webservers. I've never had a Dell/Lenovo come anywhere close to that. And don't take my word for it, actually try out some disk I/O tasks on a mac. Even my 2 drive RAID0 SSD array can't touch my MBP for disk I/O. Certain tasks will just run faster on the MBP.
Running a very well performing Hackintosh desktop, you have no idea what you're talking about. "aren't having nearly as much fun"? Not sure what you mean there.
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When the original capitalism and free markets were thought out, the known monopolies were so small as to be laughable, cost of entry was relatively fixed for all players and there were usually multiples, and there were significant hurdles to the international behemoths commonplace today. Today, cost of entry is high for anyone attempting to enter an existing market, the number of players is so small as to be laughable to be considered a choice, a key to free markets
If you go back in history, just about all wars were won when then victors pretty much stomped out the losers, across the board, to such an extent that they capitulated or were dead.
Every 3-5 years, you need to upgrade, releases are done such that the window for upgrading is actually smaller, for at least part of the stack you use. So the costs are not only sunk costs, but a continual drain. You also have a continuing and increasing cost for maintaining your systems, especially given the new Win10 push cycles. Lastly, I'm assuming those existing custom applications are going to require significant updates when migrating to the latest windows versions, which will be required across the board in the next 3-4 years. So you can either sink a bunch of money into upgrading those apps, or migrate to something from at least this decade and more friendly to all.
Pluggable read only chips are fine. No issue with those, other than car manufacturers would have to replace those chips if there was a problem. Pluggable chips have another benefit - they can be validated.
Separate busses at least restrict attack vectors, and remove an entire suite of potential vectors. That's not security theater, that's common sense. Security theater would be putting a cap on the plug, and calling it secure because it has a federal "Do not open unless authorized" sticker on it.
I use different fingers for each key - now what?
Then have a dedicated gaming box and don't use it for anything else. Wait, that's what Xbone is.
I don't buy DRM'd software unless it's for work. I also don't run DRM'd software. I don't need to, there's a large enough catalog of non DRM software out there to keep you busy for longer than you probably have. The AAA titles keep being released in a deeper and deeper pool, as older games are staying more than playable for far longer than in the past. That's probably the largest hit to their revenue, not piracy.
I have managed to rip most CDs after a thorough dawn / towel polishing (data side only) followed by a rinse. There was one case where I needed an optically identical agent to fill a couple of deeper scratches on a used CD I bought, but that was a long time ago and I don't recall the brand I used. Using cdparanoia, it is relatively painless as long as you took even moderate care of your CDs.
If you knew what they're installing you would never install any updates.
To save millions over the next decade?
Those are all reasons to switch to something else.
Did I? If I own both, I've not done anything untoward, I might even have "installed" windows on a VM with a direct access file system and merely linked appropriately. Done properly, windows will never even need be run on the current system in question.
Seems like you have a bigger problem - SQL Server. I understand why you have to update iOS each release, but why would you need to update the back end with every release of SQL Server? I know systems that are still running on 2005, and they run fine. Your boss/PM/stakeholder needs a stake put through their heads. Skipping the next DB release might buy you enough time to put your house in order. Skipping the following release might buy you enough time to review your architecture and implement something to get off the upgrade cycle mill you're being deathmarched to currently. Your DB should not need to be upgraded often, if at all, once you're in production.
if effective, Firefox may become my default browser again.
if only there were more than one side.
To put "the republicans" more in line with what every other country in the world calls that party: they are conservative. Conservatives, free from corruption, are for small government. They prioritize tradition over progressive ideas, saving over spending, and the free market over social bureaucracy.
Well, then these are not conservatives. They're not even quite social conservatives. They're more like the US christian (im)moral conservatives, if you really want to pin them down.
The world needs more fiscal conservatism. ... A good start would be to remove corporate contributions to political campaigns.
Actually, start by removing party affiliation from the ballot. Do that first. That will mean people will actually have to know who they're voting for instead of pulling the red or blue handle blindly. How that was ever considered constitutional (government support of parties) amazes me even today.
The first thing any self-respecting car thief does is remove/replace the plates. So this pretty much is all about gathering data, and nothing to do with reducing crime.
The biggest issue with aging is the stem cells in your body slowly dying out. Telomeres are the main suspect here, along with mutations in DNA during division.
Top 10 is 71+K. Get rid of them, all of a sudden there's a whole lot fewer H1Bs in country. I'm sure if you go down the list, you'll find more in "consulting" roles. MS is #11, how many of their consultants are H1Bs vs the rest of the employees? By the time you get to companies with less than 50 H1Bs, I'm pretty sure you'll have wiped out the large majority of H1Bs. Having done consulting, no one does consulting for an average 70K a year in the manner these do. It's not worth it. I doubt most will have more than 2 years tenure if they were paid 100K.
Now to part 2 - H1Bs should be paid 20% above the going rate for the average US worker, plus a 10% tax straight to the gov (might as well fix our deficit with these highly skilled but not US workers while making US workers more attractive) or maybe have the entire 30% go straight to the debt or some other combination.
I want small, lightweight, and most importantly: no wasted time dealing with non-essential pieces. Great battery life is a big plus too. Yes, using discrete graphics eats into battery life, although I actually haven't done a test with the newest one, it does last 8 hours doing builds and tests including running browsers, DBs, appservers and webservers. I've never had a Dell/Lenovo come anywhere close to that. And don't take my word for it, actually try out some disk I/O tasks on a mac. Even my 2 drive RAID0 SSD array can't touch my MBP for disk I/O. Certain tasks will just run faster on the MBP.
I'd go a step further - and say if you're an enterprise developer, meaning anything that runs on *nix. Why be hamstrung by Windows in those cases?
Running a very well performing Hackintosh desktop, you have no idea what you're talking about. "aren't having nearly as much fun"? Not sure what you mean there.
All touchpads on macs do right click via a 2-finger tap.
I personally at this time would never buy a MacBook. At the price, it's an MBP, or a much cheaper Mac Air. It all depends upon what you need it for.